9/22/2010

She was born near Nihonbashi, in the center of Tokyo.
Her grandson is the novelist Mita Kan (1956 - )

She entered the Mitsui Family in 1903 to learn about proper housekeeping and the virtues of a good wife (gyoogi minarai 行儀見習), but could not continue due to a heart disease. In 1909 she married her private English teacher, the haiku poet 富田諧三, who later was known as 長谷川零余子 Hasegawa Rsishi (1888 - 1928, July 27), who was a member of Hototogisu.

She begun to write haiku herself and on request of Takahama Kyoshi joined a Woman's Haiku Group 婦人俳句会.

Shortly after the death of her husband in 1928 her home in Shinjuku burned down and she moved outside to Urawa town, Saitama, where she died of lung infection at the age of 81.

In 1930 she started the haiku magazine 水明.
龍胆 in 1929
雨月 in 1939
胡笛 in 1955
定本かな女句集 in 1964
牟良佐伎 in 1969

Ryu Yotsuya wrote:
Director of Hototogisu magazine, Kyoshi Takahama intended to propagate haiku to women. He instituted the section "The Kitchen songs" where were published women's haikus; there were published such excellent poets as Kanajo Hasegawa (1887 ~ 1969) and Midorijo Abe (1886 ~ 1980).